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Islamic State fighters opened three turbines of Syria’s largest dam in central Raqqa province Monday, causing record floods in downstream rural Deir a-Zor and raising fears of a humanitarian crisis should the dam ever collapse or burst. It is not an incon

AMMAN: American-backed forces vying to seize the Islamic State’s Syrian capital of Raqqa are now about 40km to the west, preparing for what appears to be an imminent attack on the nearby city of Tabqa, home to one of Syria’s largest air bases, an SDF mili

AMMAN: Residents of the northwestern Raqqa countryside say that airstrikes and ground artillery fired by the US-led international coalition killed 23 civilians Tuesday night, while a spokeswoman for American-allied Kurdish ground forces leading the operat

AMMAN: On Monday, Islamic State (“IS”) fighters halted the Syrian army’s march across the eastern desert towards Raqqa—IS’s de facto capital—forcing a more-than 20km retreat and pushing regime forces and their allies to the administrative border of Raqqa

ISTANBUL: The Syrian army and its allies are advancing across the eastern desert towards the Islamic State-controlled city of Tabqa, which lies adjacent to a military airbase and sits 40km west of IS’s de facto capital of Raqqa.

Amman: The Islamic State never produced its much-publicized precious-metal currency, intended to replace US dollars and Syrian pounds, and has in fact only produced a few “souvenir coins,” activists in Raqqa told Syria Direct on Thursday.

AMMAN: The Islamic State has executed at least three women in as many weeks in A-Raqqa city in what activists from the locked-down city say is “a sign of weakness” that may be connected to recent IS losses in Iraq and Syria.

AMMAN: Citing a “lack of support” and an “inability to function,” Jabhat Thuwar a-Raqqa has dissolved its Tribes’ Army, allegedly due to a “strangling Kurdish siege,” the latest in a series of squabbles and skirmishes that appear to have strained its alli

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